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@NancyMace Around here, it seems they are more focused on making our commute worse with poorly designed traffic circles and diverging diamond interchanges and spending zero time maintaining the roads we have.

What do you think is the real reason our roads never get fixed?

I've had a few verify similar calls for a different bank's card. Same thing -- caller ID, personal info, etc. Fortunately, I know how that bank handles questionable charges. I hung up on the caller and called the bank's fraud line myself and they confirmed they had no reason to call me.

This couple got scammed out of Thousands of dollars due to Chase bank negligence. Somehow scammers got into Chase Bank’s access codes literally defrauding this couple’s account as she’s talking to them on the phone in real time . They had legitimate bank codes. The customer realized what was going on and ran to a chase branch near her.. That branch was no help. She went to two more and none were able to put a freeze on her account even though the fraud was happening in real time. Finally after 4 hours, they closed the account but by that time the thieves had made off with $49,000 in wired money, which the Bank told them was impossible to get back . So what good is the bank ?

@Headshok1962 In Central America I heard, "chuleta" as a common exasperation. I laughed when I learned it means pork chop.

What is your favorite slang term used by another country or culture? I like the term "bellend". It makes me giggle all the time.

@SGTWipper1Each Not Top 10 per se, but honorable mention to Kelly's Heroes, The Great Escape, and The Dirty Dozen

Best US Military Movies ranked: 1. Apocalypse Now (1979) 2. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 3. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 4. Patton (1970) 5. Platoon (1986) 6. Black Hawk Down (2001) 7. The Thin Red Line (1998) 8. Glory (1989) 9. Hacksaw Ridge (2016) 10. American Sniper (2014)

@GovernorVA So you are stepping down then? That would do it, no muss no fuss.

Amid the uncertainty in Washington, I’m ready to leverage all tools available to my Administration to protect Virginia families and businesses from chaos.

@BskiMike22802 Serious question... if AOC were to get close to being the first woman President, how much should she worry about Hillary, who as we all know was denied her rightful destiny of holding that role. (sarcasm of course).

What gets "lost" in this whole Virginia map thing is we in VA did NOT vote for a new map, we voted to amend the state Constitution to allow the State General Assembly to change the maps when they want, just like they did in TN. In either case, it's the politicians making and passing the maps.

@GavinNewsom Cry harder. Virginia's maps were thrown out because the Democrats there violated THEIR OWN STATE CONSTITUTION in the pursuit of power. What happened to nobody is above the law?? MAGA hasn't rigged the system. You're just mad you're losing.

No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP) No vote in Florida (+4 GOP) No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP) No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP) No vote in Texas (+5 GOP) Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out. MAGA has rigged the system.

@royermattw @LeighWolf Virginia DID NOT vote for a new map, we voted to amend the state Constitution to allow the State General Assembly to change the maps, just like they did in TN. In either case, it's the politicians making and passing the maps.

@LeighWolf Did Tennessee allow their voters to weigh in on this decision?

8 days. That’s how long it took Tennessee Republicans to gut a majority-Black Memphis district after SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act. Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina are next. They’re not even hiding it anymore.

@timkaine You know what you just wrote is BS right? VA didn't vote on a MAP, they voted on amending the VA Constitution to allow the General Assembly to redraw the map. Same thing... politicians setting the lines.

Unlike GOP-led states that redrew their congressional maps in backroom deals, Virginia let the people decide. But the Virginia Supreme Court has blocked the people’s choice. So we have to campaign and win on their maps. We can do it!

@jvirgs @LudicrouseWitch @realgreggd Then you clearly don't know what you just voted for. You DID NOT vote for a new map, you voted to amend the state Constitution to allow the State General Assembly to change the maps, just like they did in TN. In either case, it's the politicians making and passing the maps.

@LudicrouseWitch @realgreggd Yes

When it happened in VA last month, republicans took it on the chin. No protesting in the capital. No screaming and theater kid nonsense. Dems just have no emotional control.

@CherieCurrie3 Good on her for sticking up for her right to speak and shame on the board for failing their duties.

Unbelievable how grown adults are so intimidated by this child that they refuse to listen. If she was a Democrat she’d have the floor.

Dear Senator Sanders, Oh, this is RICH. This is so perfectly, exquisitely, weapons-grade rich that I had to put down my anatomy exams and just... appreciate it for a moment. The man who got thrown out of a SOCIALIST HIPPIE COMMUNE in Vermont in 1971 — after THREE DAYS — for refusing to do any actual work while everyone else planted, harvested, and hauled water, is out here telling me the OLIGARCHS want to control everything. Three. Days. The communists gave you a longer trial period than most employers give to someone who steals from the register. Here is what Jim Quinn's Law Number Two says, and I want every single person reading this to tattoo it somewhere useful: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing." Senator, you OWN THREE HOMES. A Burlington residence. A D.C. townhouse. A $575,000 vacation lake house in North Hero, Vermont — purchased in 2016, the same year you were touring the country telling college students the system is rigged. Your net worth sits somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million. You have pocketed over $2.5 MILLION in book royalties since 2011. That elevator is clearly not stuck between floors for you, is it. And then — THEN — during your "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" with AOC, you spent over $550,000 in CAMPAIGN FUNDS on PRIVATE JET TRAVEL. Half a million dollars on luxury jets to lecture working Americans about the dangers of wealth. When Fox News caught you boarding a Bombardier Challenger 604 — a jet that runs up to $15,000 PER HOUR — you did not apologize. You did not even blink. You looked directly into the camera and said, and I am quoting this verbatim because it is the most accidentally honest thing you have ever said: "You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?" Senator. THAT IS OLIGARCHIC THINKING. That is TEXTBOOK "the rules apply to you people, not to me." That is the elevator music of every single billionaire you have spent 35 years pretending to oppose. In a battle of wits with your own stated beliefs, you showed up completely unarmed. Thirty-five years in Congress. You know what your personal legislative output looks like? Eight bills passed. EIGHT. In three and a half DECADES. That works out to 0.23 bills per year. I have produced more graded anatomy exams in a single semester. Your two greatest solo legislative achievements — the ones with your name on top, the thing YOU actually DID — are the naming of a post office in Danville, Vermont, and the naming of a post office in Fair Haven, Vermont. You named. Two. Post offices. You are as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually passing legislation, but you want me to believe you are the vanguard of the working class. That sounds like a YOU problem. Quinn's Law #25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." You have been living PROOF of that law for 35 years. You give away everyone else's money — from a vacation home on a lake — while spending half a million on jets because you are far too important to wait in line with the taxpayers funding your lifestyle. You want to talk about oligarchs controlling the media? You have been IN the media for four decades. You just finished a $75 million documentary. You have a book deal. You have a podcast. You HAVE the megaphone and you are using it to tell people that other people have the megaphone. The gene pool really needed a lifeguard for THAT particular reasoning. I am a high school science teacher in Northeast Ohio. I support a family of six on a teacher's salary. I am not particularly impressed by a man with three houses, $550,000 in jet receipts, and 0.23 bills per year telling me he stands with the working class. More famous than wise, Senator. More famous than wise. The hippie commune knew it in 72 hours. How long is it going to take everyone else? IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — do YOU think a man with three homes and a half-million dollar private jet habit speaks for working Americans? Tell me. And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can actually do math, a retired Army combat medic who knows what genuine sacrifice looks like, and apparently one of the few people left who finds it suspicious that the most vocal enemy of oligarchy just cannot bring himself to wait in line at the airport with the rest of us. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

@SenTimKaine So, are you always drunk when posting?

First, it was Georgia. Then Arizona. Now, the Trump Administration has demanded that Wayne County, Michigan, turn over all ballots from the 2024 election. These are flashing red warning signs of intent to interfere with the 2026 and 2028 elections. Know your rights.

@raminrealtalk @GavinNewsom @SteveHiltonx @ChadBianco @MichaelGatesESQ @HerbWMorgan Your WalMarts have prices on the shelves? Wow. We're lucky if the items are on the right shelf, but having prices listed too? Crazy.

Gavin Newsom already fucked California grocery prices. Now Walmart and Kroger are installing digital price tags that can surge the price on your food WHILE you’re standing in the aisle. Uber surges → walk away. Hotel surges → sleep somewhere else. Food surges → you just don’t eat? This is coming. Walmart already has it in 2,300 stores. Kroger is rolling it out fast. Full Costco video here 👇

@VaNewsVanguard Perhaps I'm wrong, but one other thing occurred to me about the ballot--most people felt they were voting on the new map itself, not an amendment, which would permit the General Assembly to redistrict any number of times before the next 10-year reapportionment.

🚨EXCELLENT: MUST READ 🚨Law professor: Cooking Virginia’s referendum on partisan gerrymandering The ballot language — declaring that new congressional districts are necessary to “restore fairness” — also raises serious potential concerns under the U.S. Constitution. "Apart from the alleged procedural irregularities concerning the General Assembly’s approval of the referendum, the ballot question was phrased in a surprisingly biased manner."... "The fundamental purpose of the Submission Clause is to allow Virginia’s voters to decide for themselves whether a particular proposed amendment is fair, just and in the public interest." "The phrasing of the gerrymandering referendum is inconsistent with this provision because it blatantly tells voters that the ultimate normative decision has not been left to the voters themselves, but instead has already been made by the legislature. The official ballot text declares that the proposed amendment would 'restore fairness,' leaving voters with the effectively meaningless choice of whether they want to vote against 'fairness.'” "You might as well ask voters whether they support justice, puppies, apple pie and the American way of life. The Virginia Supreme Court should hold that the state constitution prohibits such needlessly biased, reasonably contestable, evaluative language in a ballot referendum." "In my view, this ballot language — declaring that new congressional districts are necessary to 'restore fairness' — also raises serious potential concerns under the U.S. Constitution." ... "The Elections Clause does not allow states to 'attempt to dictate electoral outcomes' in congressional elections in this manner." MORE⤵️ cardinalnews.org/2026/04/29/law…

@JohnCleese I’ve tried to give you so slack figuring you are growing old and senile but god lord man, get a grip and seek help.

Worth listening to Is it possible that Trump is ALREADY DEAD ?

@CherieCurrie3 @YouTube Agreed, that is an uplifting video (and song). I always like seeing those colorized videos of New York, Hollywood, etc from the 50's and earlier. How things have changed.

AI at it’s finest. When ppl cared about how they presented and appreciated America and her freedoms. 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸 Hollywood Walk In 1959 - I Know No More Beautiful Time (Official Music V... youtu.be/5r9mWWE624A?si… via @YouTube

@zachsdaddy72 @libsoftiktok Virginia didn't vote on the new maps, they voted to amend their Constitution to allow politician to change their maps. See, still politicians doing what they want. But don't let facts get in the way of your TDS.

@libsoftiktok Then all you MAGAts can shut the fuck up forever about California, Virginia, and any other blue state that allows its own citizens to vote for redistricting 🖕🖕🖕🖕

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just STRUCK DOWN a lower court's decision that blocked Texas from redistricting. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented. Texas can now proceed with its plans to redraw congressional districts.

@RightsRule250 @libsoftiktok While you are likely correct due to feckless judges, at least the Texas redistricting was done in accordance with their state Constitution and laws, whereas Virginia had to ignore their laws, and hold a vote to amend their Constitution.

@libsoftiktok That means Virginia's redistricting will be upheld too.

@JohnCleese John, stick to comedy. That seems to be your level.

Absolutely disgraceful It is clear that Trump is on Putin's side, and helping him in every way he can Legally, and non-legally It's all the same to Trump In five years people will not be able to believe that this was actually happening